Preschool

With an ocean theme, this preschool book reviews eleven colors, the numbers 0 through 12, six shapes, and rhyming and beginning sounds. It introduces the clock, matching capital and small letters, and mixing paint colors.

Learning More and More has an oceans theme.

Teaching Aims:

• Practice skills of thinking, coloring, counting, tracing, writing, drawing, cutting, pasting, and matching.


• Review and use eleven colors: eight basic colors, white, pink, and gray.


• Introduce mixing the three primary colors to make other colors.


• Count by 1s and 2s to 100 (or more). Write numbers 0 through 12.


• Identify numbers 0 to 20 in dot-to-dot drawing.


• Introduce pennies. Introduce hours on the clock.


• Review six shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, and oval.


• Identify sequence of shapes. Draw shapes and simple pictures.


• Match capital and small letters and words by visual discrimination.


• Trace and write a few letters correctly.


• Hear some rhyming sounds and a few initial consonant sounds.


• Learn about birds and animals that live in or near the oceans.


• Review the six other habitats of this series:
  
  
  
  • Polar lands are cold. Mountains are high.
  
  
  • Woodlands have trees. Grasslands have grass.
  
  
  • Rainforests are wet areas. Deserts are dry areas.